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I think you were correct the first time, it is self-evident. I think what Scalia was doing was trying to explain WHY it’s self-evident. Perhaps including – even especially- to people like Peter who may have forgotten (or never learned) a lot of things.
However, it’s also true – as I’ve commented elsewhere and before – that we’ve gotten to a point where all of this ends up relying on the Supreme Court to be honest. Which stops as soon as it becomes majority-liberal. At that point, they could decide that the Second Amendment is – to quote a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode – “a recipe for biscuits.”
Since even – perhaps especially – a “constitutional scholar” can argue the constitution means whatever they think it means, or should mean; from a more practical point of view it might be good to (also) have on John Lott, author of “More Guns, Less Crime.” For one example.
It’s also important to note – John Lott may have numbers on this too – how often just DISPLAYING a weapon, not actually USING it, prevents or stops a crime.
What I mean is, he doesn’t just know of the law, he knows a lot about all of the rest of it. He’s also friendly with non-stupid, non-fascist gun grabbers, which is incredibly rare.
John Lott is a big deal because he knows how to break down the social statistics beyond what I did above. A local gun policy expert @mitchpberg broken this stuff down in several excellent blog posts. The United States has less violence and gun violence than Europe as a practical matter.
Coincidently, I just heard an extension of what I was saying about Bloomberg above. Mark Levin was talking about how the Democrats are threatening the Supreme Court over gun decisions. He talked about it last night and his podcast is free. It’s at the beginning.
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Article referenced by Levin
The point I’m making is, you will never, ever, have a straightforward, informed, conversation with a gun grabber. They don’t study anything. They aren’t informed. They don’t care if they make sense. Their only option is raw political power and terrible jurisprudence.
Guys, you did it again! You’re killing me.
I think I made the same comment last time around. This is how a question-and-answer podcast should start: “Welcome to the Ricochet podcast, our first question is…”
Instead you went over 20 minutes before getting to the first question! Please, if you’re going to answer questions, just answer questions.
Oh, and thanks for using my question!
I think we enjoy hearing them jaw and be entertaining, too. But maybe “Question Time” should be separate.
Nothing funnier than hearing Boomers talk about the good old days of the sexual hierarchy of the Greatest Generation.
That Norman Rockwell young man in 1950s was working hard toward getting married and staring at a life wondering why lonely. What changed?
Marriage age higher. You are going to be alone longer.
The young man in the 1950s didn’t watch all the girls he might want to marry sleep with 5-25 partners before marriage. So, the modern 1950s guys expectations of sex and marriage might be different…he might ask why am I the only one not having sex in a listless way the Beach Boys never imagined face with contrast of every girl and most guys having meaningless sex.
The 1950s young man didn’t grow up with a single mom as his guide to life. The 1950s single man has community and religion – maybe a brother or uncle. Who has many of those anymore?
The 1950s young man didn’t grow up with school K-12 being hostile to his race and gender and blaming him for all of worlds ills. He didn’t grow up in the froth of feminism telling him he was not only un-needed but evil. He wasn’t told he needed to be put on drugs to function in school.
So everything has changed and Boomers asking silly questions about what’s up with the young men today and why don’t they live like their grandfathers sound very dated.
Robinson thinks that New York and Oklahoma should have different laws on guns. Thats a great point…sort of like gay marriage, right?
No compromise on guns and Republicans that compromise are reading twitter instead of their constituents.
One difference there is that states are allowed- even expected, if not required – to enforce their own different gun laws, but are NOT allowed to enforce their marriage laws such as saying that a same-sex couple legally married in another state is NOT legally married in THEIR state.
A 1950s young man was also likely to have several male teachers in school.
I call it a “Vietnamese compromise”: as you may recall, in the Vietnam war, the communists already had half the country, so the peace negotiations were about splitting the remaining half with them, while their half was off the table.
Similarly, when we “compromise“ on guns, that merely means we give up half our rights instead of all of them. The anti-gun side is never asked to dial back its restrictions in, say, big cities and blue states.
I’m so far behind in my podcasts I just listened to this one yesterday. So no 2019 Minnesota State Fair podcast, but maybe 2020. If @roblong, @peterrobinson, @jameslileks, and @blueyeti find that that doesn’t quite work but would still like to get together at the end of summer next year, y’all could come to the big Black Hills Ricochet Meetup.
Too often the left’s idea of “compromise” sounds like a home invasion where they start out expecting to kill you and your wife and children, then “compromise” on killing just your wife and half your children.
We’ll try! Send us the info.
It’s all in the above link, Yeti.